In order to be creative, you don’t have to be original.
RAY BRADBURYThe minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.
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It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
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